 | Robert Proud - 1797 - 522 pages
...they are people proper and ftrong of body, v-^v^y fo they have fine children, and almofl every houfe full; rare to find one of them without three or four boys, and as many girls; fome, fix, feven and eight fons. And I muft do them that right j I fee few young men more fober and... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1813 - 562 pages
...kingdoms. As they are people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house full ; rare to find one of them without three or four...some six, seven, and eight sons. And I must do them that right, I see few young men more sober and laborious. " 29. The Dutch have a meeting-place for... | |
 | William Penn - 1825 - 632 pages
...kingdoms. As they are people proper, and strong of bpdy, so they have fine children, and almost every house full ; rare to find one of them without three or four...some six, seven, and eight sons : and I must do them that right, I see few young men more sober and laborious. XXIX. The Dutch have a meeting-place for... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1827 - 392 pages
...they have fine childten, and almost every house full} rare to find one of them without three or f.nir boys and as many girls ; some six, seven, and eight sons. And I must do them that fight, i see few young men more sober and laborious. " 30. There rests that 1 speak of the condition... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - 1828 - 434 pages
...are a people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house full; 'tis rare to find one of them without three or four boys, and as many girls; some have six, seven, and eight sons, and few young men are more sober and laborious. The number of these... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1830 - 712 pages
...benevolent William Penn asserts " that almost every house was full of children, it being," he observes, " rare to find one of them without three " or four boys, and as many girls ; some six, seven, " and eight sons8." To come later down, Dr. Franklin, in his celebrated essay, which he wrote about three parts... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 452 pages
...Tinnicum, between Fort Christina and the present city of Philadelphia. many girls ; some six, seven, or eight sons. And I must do them the justice to say, I see few young men more sober and laborious." It was in the year 1655 that this happy and contented little colony was attacked by the Dutch, conducted... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 888 pages
...traffic. As they are people proper and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house full ; rare to find one of them without three or four boys, and as * Of this fortification there is no trace. It was situated near Wilmington, twenty-seven miles south... | |
 | Jehu Curtis Clay - 1835 - 200 pages
...As they are a people proper and strong of body, so have they fine children, and almost every house full ; rare to find one of them without three or four...justice to say, I see few young men more sober and industrious."* It was a feature deserving of notice in the character of the early Swedes inhabiting... | |
 | Jehu Curtis Clay - 1835 - 186 pages
...As they arc a people proper and strong of body, so have they fine children, and almost every house full ; rare to find one of them without three or four...eight sons. And I must do them the justice to say, I sec few young men more sober and industrious/'* It was a feature deserving of notice in the character... | |
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I must needs commend their respect to authority, and kind behaviour to the English; they do not degenerate from the old friendship between both kingdoms. As they are people proper, and strong of body, so they have fine children, and almost every house... 
